Oh, interesting, Sion buffs. Let's just take a look here...

I'm just hoping they don't over-buff him and respond by nerfing the other aspects of his kit.

Question for the resident sion main. With this buff what is the max combo damage for full tank sion at lvl 18? I imagine full damage sion is now in oneshot territory easy.

Was surprised by that too, remember that's a FULL charge, so the number of games that will be impactful is a smaller % than the amount of gender non-binary people in NA.

Basically, that buff means next to nothing. The health stacking is so fucking sweet though.

They serve different purposes.

I think it's fine. For starers the ability is straight forward and easy to dodge and not like Kled ultimate where he goes around everywhere. I believe Sion's niche is that he has this super engage strong ability but it doesn't feel that strong tbh and most of the time you're gonna be running into a tank or nothing at all meaning the damage won't be much. Current Sion doesn't even get max distance charges that much in reality and if he does he should be rewarded with that high damage, hitting that slow turning ability is hard AF.

Also armored titan breaking down the wall vibes -> Sion charging into a turret... so hype...

As for the passive, I see it as balancing out cinderhulk price increases for junglers and also just a nice buff in general. Late game Sion doesn't get that much bonus health most of the time and his stacking slows down severely once people group up. So it is nice.

For these reasons I think they will keep the buff.

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I'm far more concerned over the HP buff. That's easily 200+ extra HP per match putting the maximum I typically see close to 1000 bonus HP and more importantly meaning 100+ extra HP by the end of the laning phase vastly simplifying item choices.

I'm also curious if he even needs any buffs, he's very solid as is typically having had an over 50% win rate since forever, able to win most lanes while being a teamfight Boss regardless, he's the champion that for me perfectly fulfills what I would expect from the term "juggernaught" to mean and has a near universal effectiveness and flexibility that a lot of other tops lack

It has to do with the fact that Sion is gated by terrible base stats that are supposed to be counterbalanced by having a health stacking mechanic. The only problem is, once you get to about 200-250 farm, you're probably in the late game, where roaming with your team is more important, which usually means they will clear the waves instead of giving you the stacks since it's faster that way.

What this does is help Sion out by letting him have his CS x 3 = Bonus health, so that this gives him some cushion for the pushin' when that time comes. Sion is supposed to have an end game fantasy where he has like 5000 health and is just this beefy monster that slams his axe down (Which somehow causes people to fly upwards instead of being flattened?) and scream at people. I don't think I ever really scratched 4400 with him, which is a pretty average final health total for tanks